Who Has the Longest and Shortest Commutes in the US

Southern California is notorious for its insane traffic; drivers there might be pulling out their hair, but the average commuting time is surprisingly not the worst in the nation. The US Census Bureau declared that commuters from East Stroudsburg, PA spend the longest time getting to work, averaging 40.6 minutes each way, typically driving to their jobs in the NYC area.

Other commuters who work in NYC can empathize; residents in White Plains, NY and Wayne, NJ have the second-longest commute, averaging 36.9 minutes. Those times are much greater than the national average of 25.5 minutes. On the flip side, the shortest commute goes to Grand Forks, ND where workers drive an average 14.3 minutes to work, followed by Cheyenne, WY (14.9 minutes) and Roswell, NM (15.7 minutes).

I live in the Midwest and many of my coworkers live fewer than 15 miles from the hospital, but I have to drive in from the next city, so my commute is around 25 minutes. I would probably not take a job that required a very long commute. 45 minutes would probably be as long as I could handle each way.

I'm in Southern California and the commute can be horrible, been there done that. Right now I'm working about 2.5 miles from home and it takes 5-7 minutes. I work with people in the md/dc/va area and everyone there drives 45 minutes to over an hour each way.

syako--it surprises me, too. I have friends who commute over an hour one way, and I don't know anyone in the md/dc/va area whose commute is significantly below the national average of 25.5. In fact, my commute is 25-30 minutes and people around the dc metro area tell me I'm lucky to have such a short commute!

This is interesting and made me curious to learn the commute times here in Toronto. As I suspected, they are the worse in all of Canada (http://content.monster.ca/10264_en-CA_p1.asp) Traffic is terrible and our transit system sucks. Luckily I walk to work but the majority of people don't.
Anyway, the average is 79 minutes roundtrip.